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ONLY YESTERDAY
40 years ago - August 14, 1936
* Henry M. Laing Firemen’s fund
passes the $400 mark as volunteers
redoubled their efforts and the end of
the campaign neared.
Lack of interest and numerous
obstacles prompted the Dallas
‘American Legion to cancel the horse
show planned for this month.
' A book left in a vein of an old Mt.
Lookout mine in Exeter 45 years ago
by Charles Wilner, Evergreen St.,
Shavertown, was returned to him this
week after workmen cleaning out that
section of the mine discovered the
worn volume ‘The Fair Maid of
Perch”, by Sir Walter Scott.
Jerry Elston clings to lead in baby
contest but position is challenged as
other contestants evidence new
strength.
Ellis Meeker elected president at
the Meeker Reunion held at
Brulingame Park, Smithfield.
Hugh W. Ransom, Demunds, named
president of Ransom Reunion held
last Sunday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Corey Ransom of Demunds.
Married - Edna Cease to Ted
Cerwanka; Betty Jane Laycock to
William Thomas.
You cout get - Legs of lamb, 29 cents
pound; broiling chickens, 29 cents
pound; sugar, 10 pounds, 49 cents;
butter, two pounds, 79 cents; lemons,
29 cents dozen; potatoes, 39 cents
peck; bread, six cents loaf; catsup, 10
* cents bottle.
GROSSMAN
by Howard J. Grossman
Respect is a word which has been
used, misused, and abused so many
times that its meaning has been lost in
the jungle of politics and the public
interest. The traditions, heritage and
natural rivalries within Northeastern
Pennsylvania have countenanced
against a great amount of respect for
governmental officials. Some of this is
fair, but some of it totally unfair in
lights of the countless hours which our
part and full time governmental
throughout the seven counties of
Northeastern Pennsylvania.
The general image of government is
relatively poor throughout the region,
Again, some of the perceived images
concerning = the “role which
government plays in the solution of
major problems and issues is totally
out of context of reality.
On the other hand, it has often been
wd
30 years ago - August 16," 1946
New lace plant will have work for
350 persons as work gets underway by
Sordoni Construction Company.
Women of Rotary plan a card party
and tea at the home of Mrs. L.F.
Kingsley, Orchard Street,
Trucksville.
Firemen’s fair opens tonight at
Trucksville on the Fire Company’s
grounds on Carverton Road. The Fair
will open with a roast beef and fish
supper at 5 p.m.
Dallas Borough Schools will open
Sept. 4. Any pupil entering school for
the first time must be six years of age
before Feb. 1, 1947, present his birth
certificate and a certificate of
successful vaccination against
smallpox.
Alderson WSCS will present its sixth
annual flower show at Laketon High
School auditorium on Aug. 21.
Legionnaires defeat St. Michaels to
take the Bi-County League pennant.
In the game held last Sunday, the
Dallas team defeated St. Michaels 12-
5 on the latter’s field.
Now playing at local theatre - “The
Bride Wore Boots’, Barbara
Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Shaver
Theatre.
Engaged - Laura Grace Keiper and
Leland Case; Bette Jones and
Kenneth L. Grose.
Married - Ellen Piatt to Benjamin
Hummel; Loretta Hilbert to PFC R.S.
Fitzgerald; Gwyneth Davies and
Malcolm W. Dale.
Anniversary - Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Ruggles, 53 years.
Deaths - James Youells, Luzerne;
Rev. W.S. York, former Alderson-
Noxen pastor.
You could get - Fillets of cod, 35
cents pound; eggs, 59 cents dozen;
bread, 10 cents loaf; peanut butter,
one pound jar, 30 cents; home grown
cabbage, three cents pound; home
grown cucumbers, five cents each;
Elberta yellow Freestone peaches,
three pounds, 29 cents; California
seedless raisins, 11-ounce package, 10
cents.
20 years ago - August 17, 1956
Lack of action on the part of Dallas
Area School Board resulted in the
status quo on driver training and
kindergarten, two fields where all 25
board members agreed completely on
wanting both. Still no vote was cast.
Several firms survey the vacant
Fernbrook Mill and it is hoped a buyer
will be found who can give male
employment to at least 400.
Triple jointure favors uniting with
Lake-Noxen making it a merger of
Lehman, Jackson, Ross, Lake and
Noxen School system.
Saturday’s barn clearance sale
netted the library $17,191.97.
Summer band students of Dallas
Borough-Kingston Township schools
will give two outdoor concerts next
week.
Alfred Bronson, Sweet Valley
funeral director, is planning an
addition to his facilities by adding a
new wing on the upper side of the
present structure.
Lady of Lake finals are Sunday with
the contestants reduced from 31 to 15
finalists.
Westmoreland wins the pennant on
Goodwin’s four hit shutout.
Lehman-Jackson-Ross Band
sponsors will hold a Band Booster
night, Aug. 29. A bake sale will be held
following presentation of a program.
Harveys Lake Boat Club will hold
its annual semi-formal dance,
Saturday, at Irem Temple Country
Club.
Now playing at local theatres - “The
Proud Ones’, Virginia Mayo, Robert
Ryan, Himmler Theatre; ‘The Toy
Tiger”, Jeff Chandler, Laraine Day,
Tim Hovey, Luzerne Theatre; ‘On the
Threshold of Space”, Forty Fort
Theatre; ‘‘The Searchers’’, John
Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles,
Ward Bond, Dallas Outdoor: ‘Court
Jester’’, Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns,
Moonlite Drive-In; ‘“The Racers’)
Kirk Douglas, Bella Darvi, Sandy
Beach Drive-In. :
Engaged - Diane Clara Bystrak to
Carl Otto Metzger; Faith Hoover to
LaMar Dinger.
Married - Jane R. Griffith to Judge
Benjamin R. Jones, Jr. Ethel
Margaret Merchant to Arthur L.
Nuss.
Anniversaries - Dr. and Mrs. Otis
the private sector which has taken the
leadership to achieve constructive
change and the solution of major
problems throughout the region. A
major factor in all of this is the lack of
professional governmental expertise
at the local level, generally speaking,
in relation to the per capita population
in the region.
Few municipalities in the
metropolitan or non-metropolitan -
sectors of the region have full time
administrative personnel capable of
carrying out policies and directing or
guiding the future of that jurisdiction.
Part time governmental officials are
handicapped by the lack of time or the
general disrespect which many
citizens have concerning those people
who they elect to office. The same:
people who criticize elected officials
are often the same people who elected
them, or even worse, are the same
people who failed to cast a ballot.
The hierarchy of governmental
disorder in Northeastern
Pennsylvania prevades the entire
scene and prevents the region from
reaching its full potential. Naturally
there are exceptions to this overall
statement, with the point being
citizens and local governmental
officials need to meet on common
grounds to restore some dignity to the
governmental apparatus existing and
proposed for the future.
For example, the steam seems to
have run out on the efforts toward
home rule and governmental
modernization as a result of the 1972
home rule charter and optional plan of
government law, which has resulted
in the’ cities’ of ‘Scranton and Wilkes-
Barre, as’ well’ as “several® other
municipalities in Northeastern
Pennsylvania reorganizing” their
forms of government.
It is clear that home rule offers no
the Back Mountain
Memorial’ Library were
awarded emblems and
pens at a party on the lawn
of the library on Friday,
Aug. 13.
The children from
second through sixth grade
were required to read 10
books, five fiction and five
non-fiction. Each child
received a colorful
helicopter mobile to which
he added a parachuting
frog for every book com-
pleted.
Library assistants, Mrs.
Valerie Tirpak and Ms.
Noreen Gallagher, under
the direction of Ms.
Johnyne Wascavage of the
Luzerne Intermediate
Unit, presented a Bicen-
tennial puppet show. Mrs.
Helen Lewis and Mrs.
Florence Crump of the
library Book Club
‘presented the awards to
the children. Refreshments
were served.
Members honored were
Michael Balberchak,
Debbie Balonis, Larisa
Bergevin, Michael Bigus,
Lisa Burak, Tim Corcoran,
Adele Correale, George
Correale, Barbara Davies,
Kevin Delaney, Joseph
Delaney, Michelle Farris,
John Gabriel, Colleen
Golden, Amy Gouldstone,
Twenty teachers from
Ireland on Saturday
completed a three-week
stay at King’s College
under a project of the
college and the Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick of
Greater Wilkes-Barre.
On Saturday, they left for
New York City and the
Hotel Piccadilly, where
they will stay briefly
before boarding a jet plane
at the Kennedy Airport to
return to their homeland.
Coordinators at King’s
have been Dr. Donald
Farmer, project director;
Joseph Balz, business
manager; and Mary
Barret, librarian.
During the past week,
the Irish teachers visited
the Daniel J.
Elementary School,
Meyers High School, the
Anthracite Museum at
Eckley, GAR High School,
RCA plant at Mountaintop,
and
Mechanic
Sarah Gouldstone, Debbie
Haefle, Chris Hale,
Maureen Hale, Paul
Hartzel, Keith Harvey,
Bridgette Hislop, Kelly
Hislop, Sean ~~ Hislop,
Tammy Hislop, Terri
Hislop, Kathy Hocker,
Ryan Holthaus, Richard
Holthasu, Sandy Hoyt,
Judy Hrabowski, John
Kelley, Jim Kelley, Kathy
Kelley, Michael Kocher,
Paula Knizer, Beth Knizer.
Corinne Kravits,
Stefanie Kravits, Stefanie
Michael, Joey Maniskas,
Maura Mundy, Hugh
Mundy, Leslie Myers,
Marjorie Myers, Susan
Niskey, Liisa Niznik, Paul
Niznik, Paulette Niznik,
Johnny Ochman, Chris
Sharon Orlowski, Jennifer
Parduski, Heather Pit-
cavage, April Petroski,
Colby Powell, Kathy
Quick, Kim Rinehimer,
Amy Rogers,
Frank Roginski, Mary
Jule Roginski, Rita Joan
Roginski, John Roskos,
Chris Ryan, Heather
Sheehan, John Sheehan,
Nan Shiskowski, Shane
Stahovec, Susan
Stravinsky, Karen Strutko,
Eric Supey, Mike Todd,
Lynn Todd, Amy Williams,
Lisa Williams, Allison
Witter, Brian Witter, Judy
Zurinski.
educational television
station WVIA--TV, Channel
44 in Pittston.
Teachers were feted at a
farewell party Friday
night in the dining hall of
the Sheehy Student Center
at King’s College.
During the past week,
they were feted with an
outdoor social at the
summer home of John
McCole at Crystal Lake.
Various classes were held
the Biscontini Auditorium
of the D. Leonard Corgan
Library on the college
campus. *
One of the big social
events for the group took
place last Sunday when
they visited Hanson’s Park
at Harvey's Lake. Despite
a rainy and overcast day,
hand to exchange greetings
with the teachers.
without
‘to handle billing
Dallas Area Municipal Authority
(DAMA) approved a resolution to
ipurchase a computer cassette to do
{its own billing. This resolution was
{passed at DAMA’s regular meeting
last week.
| The present billing is done by First
Eastern Bank and the contract will
{end in October. Approximately 2500
! customers will begin receiving thei
bills from DAMA in about 90 days
i when the computer will be delivered
‘and installed.
| Mrs. Doris Parsons, secretary, will
! be in charge of the program.
' The original assessment payments
which were on an installment plan are
due paid in full on Oct. 1.
Marvin P. Dymond, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin O.
Dymond of 125 E. Franklin
St., Shavertown, par-
ticipated in the rescue of
more than 300 American
foreign evacuees from
Beirut, Lebanon, as a
crewmember of the air-
craft carrier USS America
in support of ‘Operation
Fluid Drive.”
— The refugees boarded
unarmed landing vessels
and were ferried to the
amphibious transport ship
USS Coronado. The ex-
traction of the civilians
from the beleaguered
Lebanese capital was
‘arrived safely aboard the
Coronado for transport to
Athens.
In a message from
President Ford, the task
force, was commended for
its high degree of
professionalism which
contributed to the success
of the operation: His ship is
homeported in Norfolk,
Va., and is currently
deployed as a unit of the
U.S. Sixth Fleet in the
Mediterranean. ‘
A 1973 graduate of West
Side Technical = High
School, Pringle, he joined
the Navy in September
1974.
panacea for achieving a better quality
of service at a more effective cost. In
fact, home rule may destroy any
opportunity for intergovernmental
cooperation and go against the grain
of governmental professionalism and
modernization. However, it does offer
an opportunity to at least take a look
at existing forms of government and
involve more citizens in the process of
how government functions and
operates.
The political nature of much of
Northeastern Pennsylvania has
caused many good professionals to
leave the region in frustration over
the intolerance of those who failed to
recognize major problems or those
who recognize them Bu fail fo do. .
anything aboutithem:s 3
Survival in the public age pd
elected officials, appointed advisory
personnel, and paid professionals is
thus a difficult and frustrating
iJ
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DAMA
the White Birch Trailer Court,
Powderhorn Drive, Elmcrest Woods,
Orchard View Terrace, Carverton
Area. The board passed a resolution
allowing Haley to make the necessary
steps for application of funds for
A letter was received from Penn-
DOT authorizing payment of the cost
Creek in the construction of the new
Carverton Road in Trucksville. Total
cost of the project amounted to $29,208
and PennDOT will assume 90 per cent
of the cost.
Out of a total of 53 connections in
the 1B sewer extension on the Manor
Drive project, Tom Bagley, treat-
ment plant manager, reported that 44
have connected to the sewer system
and 47 have paid their necessary fees.
In the 1A area, Terrace Ave. in
trucksville out of a total of 17 pros-
pective connectors, 15 have paid and
are in the process of hooking up to the
sewer lines.
All payments of bills except that of
BOSS (Builders of Sewer Systems)
were approved for payment. DAMA
had agreed to assume the interest in-
curred by BOSS for money borrowed
to meet expenses while a grant from
the FHA for sewer extensions 1A and
1B were being completed. The bill
amounted to $2,600 on two $25,000
loans. Martin noted that more in-
formation on the accumulated inter-
est must be obtained before payment |
could be made.
Stephen Zniemer, Elmcrest, was
present to ask that the sewer lines be
extended to his area. He was in-
formed that such a project would
need a pumping station and the cost
would be prohibitive. DAMA does not
have the funds and Federal aid is al-
most out of the question, Martin
noted.
‘““An exercise in futility” was
Zniemer’s reply to the request.
Martin said that at this time Zniemer
was correct. Later in the meeting
Elmcrest Woods was added to the list
of areas which haley will include in
his application for a grant.
Applications were received from
ROBO wash and a skating rink in
Dallas for a permit to connect to the
system. Both applications were ap-
ROBO firm must be on a water-
metered basis and also must have a
grit chamber.
Allen Sr., 45 years; Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Ruggles, 63 years.
Birthdays - Frank Searfoss,
Harveys Lake, 80 years; Mrs. Walter
Covert, Sr., Dallas, 86 years.
Deaths - Emma Gallup, Pikes
Creek; Bessie Cook, Evans Falls;
Mrs. Mary Alice Kemmerer,
Lehman; Mrs. Annie Brown,
Centermoreland.
You could get - Whole hams, 59
cents pound; chuck roast, 33 cent
pound; sharp cheese, 59 cents pound;
smoked bacon, 29 cents pound piece;
rye bread, two loaves 29 cents; sweet
corn, 39 cents dozen; watermelons, 89
cents each; frozen cauliflower, two 10-
ounce packages, 49 cents; frozen
lemonade, seven cans, one dollar.
10 years ago - August 18, 1966
Residents seeking dumping
facilities in Lehman Township
appeared before the Board of
Supervisors of that municipality on
Saturday morning. Chairman William
Steltz explained that the township
does not take in enough taxes to
maintain a landfill.
Centermoreland auction and
chicken barbecue draw usual large
crowd for both the barbecue and the
auction which followed on Friday and
Saturday nights.
Last reports on auction receipts
showed gross reaching nearly $20,000
with $19,763 in to date.
Cludburst pelts area with hail as
cellars are flooded. Gate of Heaven
venture. Only time will tell whether
the species called ‘governmental
official” will survive and prosper in
Northeastern Pennsylvania.
auditorium is under 12 inches of:
water. ~
Homebuilders Association holds
outing at Watahunee Park. -
Linda Rae Taylor has been awarded -
a nursing scholarship by Geisinger”
Medical Center.
Rain failed to dampen the spirits of
more than 6,000 people attending Back
Mountain Night at Pocono Downs.
Dallas football season opens; sixty
four boys are examined on Monday.
Now playing at local theatres -
“Born Free’, Bill Travers, Virginia
McKenna, Luzerne Theatre; wp
Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.”’, Dick Van
Dyke, Forty Fort Theatre.
Engaged - Eileen M. Crispell and
Elvin Bean; Sandra Faye Hoover and
Gary Howard Whitesell.
Married - Carol Lyons to Burton
Steltz; Lois Ann Ryman to Joseph F.
Hardisky; Patricia Zawoiski to James
Kozemchak, Jr.; Amy Louise Hetrick
to Francis Stocker.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Lewis, 43 years; Mr. and Mrs.
William Frederick, 26 years.
Birthdays - Orrison Kocher, 85
years.
Death - Lamon Harmon, Hunlock
Creek; John Belles, Reyburn.
You could get - Boneless round
steak or roast, 85 cents pound; cube
steaks, 99 cents pound; sweet corn, 69
cents dozen; Pascal celery, 19 cents
stalk; Vienna bread, two loaves for 39
cents; Eight O’Clock coffee, 69 cents
pound; salad dressing, 39 cents quart
jar; butter, 84 cents pound; Star Kist
chunk white tuna, two 64-ounce cans,
75 cents.
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by the Rev. Charles H. Gilbert
It is about time I took the trouble to
find out more about ‘magnetic tape’!
Somebody must have invented it or
some concern must have conceived its
production.
Nowadays things come into
existence and little is said about the
person who, first got the idea. Years
ago, back when the sun still came up
and shone in the bedroom window to
let you know it was a new day, the
school book I was exposed to in hopes
that T would get some learning from it
had a fascinating story about a man
named Thomas Alvah Edison.
He did a lot of experiments and got
into trouble doing it, got thrown out
into the street with all his stuff where
he had been trying out this and that
and an explosion occurred, and that
was the end of that! But he began
again, kept getting new ideas with
electricity, what it could do, and we
credit him with the invention of the
carbon filament electric lamp.
I was alive back when they became
the wonderful lighting material.
Kerosine lamps grew dim. But the
would break at the slightest jar. I
remember gently shaking such a
lamp with the broken filament that
could be seen quivering with the
shock, and I shook it gently until the
broken ends touched and fused back
together and the light worked for a
while longer.
And then I remember oie about
Samuel F. B. Morse who invented the
telegraph. When wires were strung on
poles and the story went out that you
could send a message over those wires
to someone far away, one person hung
a pair of boots on the wire to be sent
away to be cleaned.
Some opposed those poles in front of
their houses for fear they would have
no privacy any more. But the
telegraph came, and my older brother
and I were experimenting with
electric batteries and wire. My
mother decided it was better for her
not to try to do much sweeping or
cleaning in our room with all those
wires around. We had privacy to
experiment. We got a: couple of
instruments, hitched them up, learned
the Morse symbols and even had a
“line’’ stretched three blocks to a
friends house and actually sent
messages. Only we found we could not
string our own wires on company
poles!
Now times are different. I seldom
read of the wonderful works of any
one man in the field of inventions. I
rather think that now some great
industries reward their workers for
any new ideas they may get for doing
something better, so the inventor does
not get so much individual credit.
* That is probably why I did not know
who first invented, for instance, thg
magnetic wire recorder. We went tO
my brother’s home so I could baptize,
his new granddaughter, and his “a
recordedthe:ceremony on a'spool of
magnetic wire. Then all of a sudden
without my knowing what was going
on, magnetic tape on reels was being
used to record voice and music and
playit back. And then I began to hear
about video tape giving us pictures on
TV.
I never knew who did it!
And now I am being overwhelmed
by the way magnetic tape is
benefitting me beyond my belief
almost. I am getting help in my study
of New Testament Greek in the form
of reels of magnetic tape with lessons
in -Greek on them. And from the
Library of Congress, through a
regional center in Philadelphia, a
special kind of tape player especially
for the blind and handicapped. And
just this week, two whole books on
tape came for me to ‘read’; they
were completely different, things »
hadn’t asked for, but somebody in tha
library thought I might find them
interesting because of a Greek word in
the title!
Mysterious magnetic tape! I wish I
could know how it works and who
invented it. Of course I will use it and
rejoice, but I want to thank somebody
who did it! Well, anyway, I had better
put in my prayers a great big ‘“Thank
you, God!”
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School
as project director of Title III, 306, for
the extended duration of the project at
her regular contract salary as
elementary guidance counselor.
While serving as project director,
Mrs. Whitman’s counseling duties are
handled by a long term substitute,
William Cobb, appointed at the
Ray Carlsen, Editor & Publisher
Joseph ‘‘Red’’ Jones, Advertising
Chariot Denmon, News & Advertising
Bea LaBar, Circulation Asst.
Blaze Carlsen, Asst. fo Publisher
Susan Meller, Office & Production
Olga Kostrobala, Office & Production
Eleanor Rende, Office & Production
Jane Lutz, Office & Production
Randy Steele, Advertising Art & Photography
Sally Riegel, Office & Production
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